What is "Value" and "Things"

By Yuna Wu

中文版

Today, let's talk about the new thoughts and changes I've made to the value of trash during the past few months of study. We will talk about at the beginning what I thought about the trash. After I listen to the speakers and teacher's speech, I change my mind. Then I have a new idea about trash.

In the beginning, I thought trash was trash. Trash is something that we don't want anymore, that we throw away and then incinerate. After we throw away the trash, it no longer has value. For example, plastic bags. We use plastic bags to put things in, and when we throw them away, they are useless.

Then I changed my mind. The teacher taught a lot of lessons about environmental protection and value this semester. The teacher also invited many speakers to speak. Many of them were about creating something new out of garbage.

After listening to the teacher and the speakers, I had a new idea about trash. Trash is not just trash. Of course, if you don't use it in the right way and just throw it in the trash, it's still useless trash. If we recycle garbage, it has the opportunity to become something new and useful, creating new value. For example, the plastic bag I just mentioned. If you recycle it properly in the recycling bin. Then the plastic bag can be recycled into a piece of clothing, or a pair of shoes, or something like that.

So in fact, everything has value, including garbage. As long as you use it correctly, anything will become valuable. So we should properly sort garbage to let garbage have value too. So let properly sort garbage together!

今天，我們來講一講在這幾個月的學習中，我對垃圾價值的新的想法和改變。

在一開始，我認為垃圾就是垃圾。垃圾是我們不要了的東西，扔了之後被焚化。我們把垃圾扔掉之後它就不再有價值了。比如說：塑膠袋。我們用塑膠袋來裝東西，裝完東西後扔掉就沒有用了。

後來我的想法改變了。老師在這個學期講了很多關於環保還有關於價值的課。老師也請了很多演講者來演講，很多是用垃圾來創造新的東西。

在聽了老師和演講者的演講後，我對垃圾有了新的想法。垃圾不僅僅只是垃圾。當然如果不用正確的方式，只是把它隨意的丟在垃圾桶的話，那它照樣還是沒有用的垃圾。如果我們將垃圾回收的話，它就有機會變成新的有用的東西，創造新的價值。比如我剛剛說的塑膠袋。如果你將它正確回收到回收垃圾桶裡的話。那這個塑膠袋就可以回收再利用，變成一件衣服，或是一雙鞋子之類的。

所以其實任何的東西都是有價值的，包括垃圾。只要你正確使用，任何東西都會變的有價值。

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